Metallic button



(McdeL) E.N.POOTE.

METALLIC BUTTON. No; 274,582. Patented Mar.27,1883.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,582, dated March27, 1883.

Application filed December 11, i882. (Modem To all whom it incy concern!I Be it known that I, EDWARD N. Foorn, a citizen of the United States,residing at Northampton,iu the county of Hampshire and State ofMassachusetts, have invented new and usean Improvements inMetaliicButtons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved metallic button, and to the methodof manufacturing the same, the object being to produce, in a rapid andeconomical manner, a button having a face composed of several differentmetals, having thereupon raised and depressed ornamental figures and apleasing contrast of colors, which is produced by the employment ofvari-colored metalsiu the production of said button. y

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 4 illustratesthe face of a but-' ton embodying my invention. Fig. 5 is a transversesection. Fig. 1 illustrates the face of adie used in the manufacture ofsaid button. Fig. 3 illustrates a button-blank, and Figs. 6 and 7metallic surface-pieces. Fig. 2 illustrates the manner of arranging thepieces shown in Figs. 6 and 7 upon the face of the die preparatory touniting them with the piece shown in Fig. 3. r

In carrying out my invention in. the manufacture of buttons, I. preparea die, a, upon which 1 form any suitable ornamental figure,substantially as shown, and adapt it to be operated in any suitablepress, with a plain-faced forcing or base block. I next prepare suitablemetallic pieces, as illustrated in Figs. 3, 6, and 7, e being a disk ofalsoi't quality of metal and of suitable thickness. and diameter for abutton. The metal used for the piece 6 may be such as is usually calledwhite-metal, and composed mainly of tin and lead, or the latter andbismuth or zinc. The piece (I is made of brass or other suitable metal,and is adapted to about cover the figure on the die n. Thesegment-shaped pieces 0 are made from sheetbrass, (as is said piece (1,)and are of proper form to be placed around thepiece d, as shown Saidpartshaving been prepared, as above described, they are united toproduce a button face and body, as

shown in Figsflianthti, in the following man- \L. 0i. S

her: The disk dv is laid upon the central figured portion of the die a,and the pieces 0 are laid on the latter, all inn-bout the positionsshown in Fig. 2, a being the bottom die in the press. The button-blank e(of white or soft metal) is then laid onto the said pieces d c c c c,and the upper die is then made to strike on said blank with such poweras to cause said disk (I and the soft metal beneath it to receive aclear reverse impression of the figure on said die, and to cause saiddisk and blank to be thereby firmly united one to the other, taking aoonfigu ration substantially such as is shown in Fig. 5. At the sametime that the pieces e-and d are forced together, as aforesaid, thepieces 0 are forced into the surface of the blank 6, occupying such aposition relative to the latter as is shown in Fig. 5. After said parts0, d, and 0 have been forcibly united, as above stated, a suitable shankis attached to the rear side of the piece 0, and the face thereof notcovered by said parts is then ornamented in any suitable manner, byengraving or otherwise, and the exposed faces of the parts 0 arelikewise engraved or chased, and any suitable ground-color is added tobring out more advantageously the effect of the raised figure on saidpieced, whereby the button is completed.

Attractive ornamental effects in buttons may be produced by omitting thepieces 0 and engraving or otherwise finishing the surface of the buttonsurrounding the center piece, d, or by inserting the said pieces 0, asaforesaid, in said surface and then engravin g the central portion ofthe button, or applyiu g a suitable contrasting color thereto.

It will be seen that by the above-described method of producing saidbutton a face is obtained in which are mingled the yellow color of thebrass and its bright engraven effect, the

white shining effect of the engraved white metal, and said ground-colorapplied to por tions of the white-metal.

Itis obvious that the above-described method of employing metals ofdifi'erent degrees of hardness and of different colors in themanufacture of buttons may be advantageously employed in making manyother analogous articles of wearing-apparel and of ornamentation.

bedding said harder pieces within the said disk, and in subsequentlyornamenting the surface of said pieces, substantially as described. 10

EDWARD N. FOOTE.

What I claim as my invention is- The within-described improved processfor' constructing a metallic button, which consists in preparing a disk,e, of soft metal, andsev-

